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Two Evangelists

TWO EVANGELISTSFrance, Flavigny-sur-Moselle, Priory church of Saint-Fermin, attributed to Valentin Bousch
1530-1535
Pot metal, white glass, silver stain, and sanguine
Diameter: 81.3 (32) (each)
Some paint losses in A; some minor replacements in B; mending leads in both

Provenance: Arnold Seligman, Rey and Co., New York
Bibliography: Abbe Guillaume “Notice sur le prieure de Flavigny-sur-Moselle et sur quelques personages qui l’ont illustre,Ó Memoires de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine 3rd s., no. 5 (1877), 223-328; Edmond des Robert, “Trois vitraux du prieure de Flavigny,” Bulletin de la Societe darcheologie lorraine (1907), 212-214, ill.; Durr Friedley, “A Renaissance Window,” Art in America l (1913), 136-140; Friedley, _Stained Glass from the Abbey of Flavigny,Ó Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art o.s. 12, no. 5 (May 1917), l12-116, ill.; Léon Germain de Maidy, “Sur les anciens vitraux de Flavigny, 11 Bulletin de la Societe d’archeologie lorraine (1927) 57-60, 73-78; Jean Lafond in Marcel Aubert et al., Le vitrail fram;;ais (Paris, 1958), 243-244; Victor Beyer, Jacques Choux, and Lucien Ledeur, Vitraux de France du Moyen-Age la Renaissance: Alsace, Lorraine, Franche-Comte (Colmar, 1970), 141-142; Choux, “Valentin Bausch a Saint-Nicolas-de-Port et a Flavigny,” Le pays lorrain 3 (1973), 157-170, ill.; Michel Herold, “Le vitrail en Lorraine a la fin du Moyen Age” (Ph.D. diss., Université de Nancy, 1983), 114_117; Herold, “Les vitraux anciens de Lorraine: Richesse et originalite in Le vitrail en Lorraine du XIIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), 63; Herold and Francis Roussel, “Catalogue: Vitraux deplaces, 11 in Le vitrail en Lorraine du XIIe au XXe siecle (Nancy, 1983), no. 185.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cloisters (New York, New York)
Object/Accession: 17-40.3 and 4 (European Sculpture and Decorative Arts)

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